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BEWITCHED, by                    
First Line: Now that the trap you laid
Last Line: No more of life.
Subject(s): Animals; Life; Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers


Now that the trap you laid
Has caught this faun,
Can you, prince, hold it fast
From dawn to dawn?

When slim faun turns to dove
With timid wings,
Will you dare close your heart
To what it sings?

When red-eyed, bitter fox
Bloodies your hand,
Will you have strength to knot
A tighter band?

Can twisting snake disgust,
Gray toad repel
One who has kept this long
His vigil well?

Others who bravely tried
To set me free,
Ere midnight slept had fled
Some shape of me.

But, prince, if you must fail,
Drive home a knife.
Defeating you, I want
No more of life.





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